tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38087352007-06-29T12:48:02.503-07:00Killer BonesRegular updates on progress of true Independent filmmakers and their projects.Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11788266713047621450noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808735.post-1116877386812165912005-05-23T12:38:00.000-07:002005-05-23T12:43:06.816-07:00POS II is finished!The long awaited (by us at any rate) sequel to The Proletariat Of Space is finished. Brian and I today spent the morning burning and labeling DVD's and cases for our friends, family and lawyers. The film looks great. The POS II outfit looks wonderful. The relief is palpable. In the time since commencement of principle photography on POS II, I have lost a job, begun a new career and purchased a Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11788266713047621450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808735.post-1109320629345897572005-02-25T00:31:00.000-08:002005-02-25T00:39:04.353-08:00Long Time...Well, it's been a while.
But fear not. We toil on your behalf. Brian works feverishly both to pass the bar (wish him luck everyone) AND directing an action short (details of which to be announced soon). While I am freelancing again.
Yes, I am no longer a part of the Leo Ticheli Family. As such, I find myself freelancing again. The very words fill my mouth with an acrid bile. More importantly, IHunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11788266713047621450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808735.post-1082929157107782342004-04-25T14:39:00.000-07:002004-04-25T14:44:27.890-07:00POS II nears completion!
We are well in edit with POS II. We are shooting a cameo with the esteemed Mr. Alan Hunter (recently of Johnny Flinton fame). He will be watching outside his very own WORKPLAY facility as a giant robot smashes into the lobby. Hilarity ensues…
Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11788266713047621450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808735.post-1068669295967292252003-11-12T12:34:00.000-08:002003-11-12T12:35:22.293-08:00POS II!
We are late in production on POS II. I’m building a giant robotic nemesis for the stalwart POS right now. We’ll be shooting that and a heap O’ green screen in the coming weeks. We basically wrapped out the cast save Brian last session so it’s the usual team of Brian and me on the green screen from here forward.Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11788266713047621450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808735.post-1064241609759607612003-09-22T07:40:00.000-07:002003-09-22T12:49:59.200-07:00THE SCREENING
The screening went well – as far as I can tell. I’m not the best judge of such matters as any attention we get at all is a genuine surprise to me. Brian has had the media machine humming along nicely and I’ve been able to keep its rapacious hunger for media fulfilled to this point.
We got a little help from a friend at Intermark – Kelly Marshall. She was able to line up an Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11788266713047621450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808735.post-1063769423140708562003-09-16T20:30:00.000-07:002003-09-16T20:30:22.890-07:00Alrighty!
We have been on channel 42, we’ve been accepted to the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival and now channel 6 wants to see our mugs on television.
Zero Prospect screens at the Alabama Theater at 12:00 noon this Sunday the 21st of September. Tickets for our film are only $5.00 from the Sidewalk Film Festival offices.
Zero Prospect seems to be getting as good as it gives and we are Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11788266713047621450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808735.post-1057938513502294592003-07-11T08:48:00.000-07:002003-07-11T08:48:33.330-07:00DVD encoding.
I don’t know how many of you out there have access to DVD authoring tools but it’s a process fraught with pitfall and deception. Worst yet, many of the mistakes common to a mastered DVD are not apparent until after you’ve burned the DVD.
This is the shadowy hinterland in which I currently reside. So even after you can wrap photography, complete effects photography, wrap up Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11788266713047621450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808735.post-1057456230395257672003-07-05T18:50:00.000-07:002003-07-05T18:51:28.456-07:00Zero Prospect is for all intents and purposes done.
How does it look? All I can say is that impressions so far have been enthusiastic. I’ll be happy with ‘decent’. I’m tweaking the credits and pondering the best way to make an MP2 file of the finished film for the purposes of making the DVD. Without going into things too deeply let me just say that I’m having a cast/crew screening this Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11788266713047621450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808735.post-959847262003-06-24T09:06:00.000-07:002003-06-24T09:08:34.000-07:00Act II done. Act III goes online Thursday. I expect to be finalized by Saturday. I’m holding out for one more piece of music from Alex Yaker, our composer…but I have contingency plans as well…
This is the proverbial ‘IT’ folks…
Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11788266713047621450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808735.post-959013852003-06-21T14:54:00.000-07:002003-06-21T14:54:34.160-07:00Ok, ACT II is fini and this after work swapped Macs on me and upgraded Final Cut III to Final Cut IV - ALL IN THE SAME DAY! It's a miracle that nothing was lost. For all of you Mac addicts out there, I can offer you this. Final Cut IV crashes just as often as FC III. The problem here - as FC IV is a brand new build - is not with the software running on the OS X kernal but the OS X kernal Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11788266713047621450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808735.post-956296652003-06-13T07:28:00.000-07:002003-06-13T07:28:12.840-07:00Ok,
Act I is done, done, done. I’m mixing audio for Act II now. It’ll take only a couple of days. Act III is eight freekin’ minutes long. That should take an afternoon and a Diet Code Red. All kidding aside kids, this is the final run. I’ll be done by the 15th…
Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11788266713047621450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808735.post-947055222003-05-21T14:48:00.000-07:002003-05-21T15:12:41.000-07:00So what the hell does this film look like anyway?
Ok, so it won’t do any good to whine about how little time I’ve had to do things OTHER than Zero Prospect for the past year.
So what’s the holdup you ask?
Well…basically I haven’t had time to do ANYTHING but edit and shoot effects elements for eighteen months! What do you want from me? I haven’t SEEN primetime television since June of Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11788266713047621450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808735.post-947032732003-05-21T13:51:00.000-07:002003-05-21T13:51:07.600-07:00Locked Print
What that means is that Brian and I polished ACT III last night and saved the final version to a 60min Digital Betacam master reel. Zero Prospect has now officially wrapped effects post. Now I add sound and music. The talents of the versatile Alex Yaker, formerly of Cognac, will be employed in the finished soundtrack. I’ll be taking the DigiBeta out again with our Scheps mic Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11788266713047621450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808735.post-940133022003-05-08T14:24:00.000-07:002003-05-08T14:24:37.350-07:00Tonight I sit down to two of the four remaining effects shots for ZP. Leaving aside the issue of the Opening and Closing credits for now, that has us done with all editing by this Friday. I can hardly believe that it is nearly finished but it is. My final thoughts on these effects shots center around how well they fit the action. Some are better than others. Some are more convincing than Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11788266713047621450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808735.post-916408812003-03-29T23:36:00.000-08:002003-03-29T23:36:09.750-08:00I have completed six effects for Act III. I'm sleepy. More soon.Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11788266713047621450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808735.post-909514762003-03-18T14:50:00.000-08:002003-03-18T14:54:36.000-08:00Ok. So Act II is in bed – safely tucked away and Act III is now re-digitized and the effects composites have begun anew. So why should we expect this to take any less time than did Act II and why should we expect to see Zero Prospect finished by December this year?
Two good points. First of all, Act II wasn’t just Act II. It also had the beginning of Act III tacked on with three effects Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11788266713047621450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808735.post-904843612003-03-10T15:10:00.000-08:002003-03-10T15:10:54.686-08:00Act II is complete as of tonight! Stay tuned for updates and sleep!Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11788266713047621450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808735.post-900599652003-03-03T09:51:00.000-08:002003-03-03T09:51:00.123-08:00Ok, so Ken has now updated 90% of our page. I'll send out a cry for links today and - with luck - maybe we'll get some traffic. If you are reading this page, please take a moment to drop us a short email. There is a contact link above to the right under Brian's attractive mug or you can find contact under the navigation window at the top.
Give us a shout!Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11788266713047621450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808735.post-895569082003-02-22T09:27:00.000-08:002003-03-02T01:19:42.000-08:00Ok, I’m back online and almost done with Act II. I can never call a setback a total waste of time because I learn quite a few things each time we have to recapture this project. This week I learned that Final Cut Pro 3 is NOT and I repeat NOT ready for full, uncompressed, SDI standard definition video. It’s just not. It’s like loading the Alaskan pipeline full of hippopotamuses and expectingHunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11788266713047621450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808735.post-888918022003-02-10T20:03:00.000-08:002003-02-10T20:03:33.076-08:00Once again, Zero Prospect has been taken OFF LINE. This means that although the information about the edit decisions still exist as a file on the computer, the media array has been wiped. Now I face another 2-6 hours of redigitizing before I am even back where I left off Thursday evening of last week. These are the kinds of setbacks one can expect when one is using free equipment from work. Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11788266713047621450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808735.post-887192952003-02-07T11:13:00.000-08:002003-02-07T11:16:39.000-08:00I was just looking over the Zero Prospect page here. I noticed with a bit of a twinge that David Flemming is not wearing shoes in his full cast photo ( see it here ). It then occurred to me that never – in the entirety of the film – do we EVER see his feet! This illustrates probably more clearly than any other example the myopic nature of filmmaking. The filmmaker only shows you what you Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11788266713047621450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808735.post-887181472003-02-07T10:48:00.000-08:002003-02-07T10:48:58.600-08:00Looking at the time line, I suddenly find that Act Two is missing only TWO EFFECTS! While I have plenty of tweaks to make before I lay it off and move onto Act Three, this definitely marks THE BEGINNING OF THE END. Oh, and please let me know if you are visiting this site by emailing us. I’m at whcressall@earthlink.net and we can all be found on the contacts page. Look for it in the nave menu Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11788266713047621450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808735.post-886089162003-02-05T13:07:00.000-08:002003-02-06T12:03:44.000-08:00CHATTACON!!!
We showed the much more complete assembled print of Zero Prospect at Chattacon this past January. Wow! What a response! I had the pleasure of watching the audience and seeing for the first time what hit the funny buttons and what hit the suspense buttons. All things considered, we did pretty well. I still have the opportunity to tighten things up a bit. That’s what screeningsHunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11788266713047621450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808735.post-886087492003-02-05T13:04:00.000-08:002003-02-06T12:03:50.000-08:00I am well into the beast that is Act Two. The effects have been challenging but the results have been rewarding. Some of the shots I had no idea exactly how to pull off – have surprisingly been the most rewarding. Nothing ahead seems actually troublesome…merely time consuming. Keep watching this space. I’ll send some screenshots soon!Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11788266713047621450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808735.post-859122012002-12-12T13:22:00.000-08:002002-12-12T13:26:12.000-08:00Ok,
So I still haven’t updated the projects. I’m trying, believe me. It just takes time…time I haven’t got. Last night I was at work until 11:30pm just finishing two more simple effects shots for ZeroP or 0P if you prefer. I wasn’t saving frequently enough so when the Mac G4 did one of its now infamous vanishing acts (Combustion simply vanished!) I lost 30 minutes of work.
I didn’t cry,Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11788266713047621450noreply@blogger.com